Euclyde Datacenters has set up fully automated monitoring of its IT infrastructures and services via APIs.
NEW YORK – Euclyde Datacenters is a French company that develops and operates a network of data centers in France and Luxembourg. The company provides its customers with a wide range of services, from cloud hosting to managed services and business continuity solutions. Since 2023, Euclyde has been part of the nLighten European edge datacenter platform.
Implementation of EV Observe
“In order to effectively monitor our infrastructures and deliver the highest quality and availability of service to our customers, we were looking for a proven monitoring tool with a high degree of automation capability. We opted for EasyVista’s EV Observe, with automation via APIs. Deployment was initially carried out at Euclyde Datacenters, then across the entire nLighten infrastructure,” explains Damien Vargas, IT Director Europe, Euclyde Datacenter.
The API-based automation deployment process was carried out in three main phases: IT preparation, EV Observe preparation, and production launch.
The first phase, IT preparation, involved a number of stages that were crucial to the success of the industrialization phase, starting with the definition and application of a naming convention for customers and infrastructure components. Once this naming convention was in place, all components were then integrated into the Euclyde Datacenters CMDB. Finally, the IT department created monitoring objects in the CMDB to link them to the actual objects for supervision.
Once the IT had been properly set up to support automation, the IT Department moved on to the second phase: standardization of EV Observe, aimed at enabling full automation and its industrialization. This phase includes the sites and customers declared in EV Observe, the standardization of monitoring boxes, and the standardization of supervision models for the EasyVista platform.
“This type of measurement is generally difficult to do in standard environments, and it’s very rare that customers have direct access to it,” stresses Damien Vargas.
Considerable gains
“This project, and all the deployment work that went with it, enabled us to generate very significant gains on a day-to-day basis,” comments Damien Vargas. “In less than a month, the APIs enabled us to integrate more than 1,000 hosts and more than 10,000 services. No fewer than 7,000 different measuring points reuse the EV Observe APIs. Finally, the time saved is considerable, both for production and for customer integration. One day’s work is all it takes to fully integrate a data center in terms of supervision and management.”
